Winter Engagement Session {Auckland pre-wedding photographer}

Im so excited to share with you highlights of the winter engagement session on Muriwai Beach {Auckland} with Sheldon & Harry, who won this pre-wedding giveaway a few months back.

We don’t had the opportunity to shoot the session because the country was on the lockdown, but luckily no I had an opportunity as their photographer to document so special for couple moments!

Couple shared their story: “Harrison and I met back in high school where he asked me out but I had to say no due to not being allowed a boyfriend (had to concentrate on school work) once we finished school we started talking again and there was instant attraction. We started dating, have been together 7 years, living together and owning dogs together. We have been each other's rock and we are definitely each others better half” The proposal: “He wrapped a gorgeous frame up for Christmas - to which he had filled with pictures and a note saying will you marry me? When I looked up he was there with the ring a huge smile and then said so will you marry me”. So romantic story!

Enjoy highlights of couples engagement pre-wedding photo shoot:

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Top 100 Wedding Photographers in Australia and New Zealand by SLR Lounge {Auckland couples photographer}

Im so excited to wake up to this news and truly honoured to be included in Top 100 Wedding Photographers in Australia and New Zealand 2020 by reputable SLR Lounge. It’s amazing to receive such a spark of positivity at this tough time.

Congratulation to all my friends-photographers and all the amazing artists capturing special moments for their couples in such a challenging but most rewarding photography genre. Im so grateful for all the opportunity to capture special celebrations for my wedding couples in Auckland and around New Zealand.

It’s truly inspiring! Thank you to all my awesome couples for constant support and love and putting your trust in me and my work! <3

Warmly,

Olga

P.S.: I also truly excited to teach my next run of online workshop “Love, Light & Laughter” - 8 June at Click Photo School. Check it out if you want to push your photography to another level!

Best moments of the season {Auckland wedding-engagement-family photographer}

As there plenty of time to slow down, reflect and look back at self-isolation, I decided to put together some favourite best moments of the past season in Auckland with wedding, engagement and family photography. As a photographer Im so blessed to capture beautiful, emotional and real moments of my couples that put their trust in my hands, connecting to my style, vision and personality as well.

Enjoy this gallery highlights with some top weddings, pre-wedding | engagement couples photography and family | kids photos.

I can not wait when government take off all limitations when situation with Covid-19 will settle and we will be able again to have an amazing time and document some honest and stunning moments. Not long to go now!

SO many weddings and sessions got postponed as well as my live workshops in New Zealand and Australia. Luckily Im still able to run my online workshop Love, Light & Laughter at Click Photo School. Check it out if you want to push your photography to another level!

Beach engagement | pre-wedding session: Megan and Carlo {Auckland photographer}

Im so excited to share with you a recent photo shoot on the beach - engagement | pre-wedding session with Megan and Carlo on Muriwai {West Auckland}. These two beautiful people come over from Australia to celebrate their special day with their close friends and family and had an engagement shoot just two days before their wedding!

We had a great time walking and talking on the beach, discuss couple’s wedding plans and have some beautiful, emotional and real moments captured.

Enjoy highlights in the photo gallery:

Engagement | Post-wedding photo shoot in Auckland {New Zealand wedding photographer}

Im so excited to share with you beautiful engagement | post-wedding photo shoot in Auckland at Muriwai Beach, one of the most stunning places in New Zealand, dream for all wedding photographers to be.

Navya & Manish come all the way from Boston, USA for their pre-wedding photo shoot in New Zealand.

Couple shared their love story: “ We met 6 years back while I was doing my masters in Washington DC and Manish came to stay with his friend who was in the same school, we started hanging out and dating the same year. Manish went back to India and visited USA again for his MBA. We used to have a long distance relationship and meet over the weekends etc, and then got married 2 years back. He proposed on top of an roof top bar in New York. I was there meeting my friends and Manish was catching up with his school friends. We both are super shy, so this was a big surprise for me. “

Such a romantic story!

Enjoy highlights in couples engagement | post-wedding gallery:

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Muriwai Beach Engagement | Pre-Wedding Session {Auckland wedding photographers}

Enjoy highlights of Muriwai Beach Engagement | Pre-wedding session with Harriet and James, just before their wedding {that was a honour to capture for us, Auckland wedding photographers}.

This session day was incredibly different as all sky been covered with orange glow from Australian fires. It was also extremely dark, but we decided to keep the session and go with the flow, capture some beautiful, emotional and real moments.

I feel it helps us a lot to get to know each other and feel more relaxed and comfortable on the wedding day, saving some time at the intimate session. I totally recommend everyone to have this pre-wedding session with your chosen photographer and move some nerves out of the system as well. :)

Look at our session results!

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Pre-wedding session in New Zealand {Auckland wedding photographer}

I would love to share with you highlights of Ria & Jeremy pre-wedding session in New Zealand, Auckland. I can’t believe its only one day to go till their wedding, such a honour for me to be their wedding photographer.

Session took place in a stunning location - Muriwai Beach, West Auckland where we met sunset.

Enjoy highlights of couple pre-wedding engagement session:

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Muriwai Beach engagement session {Auckland wedding photographer}

Amazing time on Muriwai Beach photographing Andrew & Alice engagement session. Such a honour for me, Auckland wedding photographer, to be chosen to document their special day in March. Not long to go now!

It was such a great time, walking and talking on the beach and capturing some beautiful, romantic and real moments.

Couple is so gorgeous and crazy in love, amazing people with beautiful souls!

• By the way my online photography workshop “Love, Light & Laughter” just get available for registration at Click Photo School, this run begins 23 March. I can not wait to connect to all amazing people, share my knowledge, my heart and my soul. Such a great education for photographers!

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Couple pre-wedding photo shoot {Auckland engagement photographer}

Im so excited to share with you beautiful, emotional and real moments this couple pre-wedding photo shoot in Auckland {Muriwai Beach}: Dianne & Jared had their engagement session and it was a pleasure for me to be their photographer.

So many romantic moments, love, light and laughter!

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Pre-wedding engagement session on Muriwai Beach {Auckland wedding photographer}

Carlos & Caroline come to their pre-wedding | engagement session on Muriwai Beach from overseas {New York}. Its such a pleasure for me as a wedding photographer to capture all the emotions, romantic and real moments for this beautiful couple.

Their story: “Carlos and I met in New York City five years ago working together at the same architecture firm. Before coming to the states, Carlos grew up in Auckland and a lot of his family still lives there. We were always good friends and after a year or so began dating, (secret office romance). Then I moved away for school and we've spent the last four years doing long distance. This has made all the time we have gotten to spend around one another all the more special. I'm finally graduating this May and moving back to NYC to be with him for good. We have decided to get married in the states but want to make New Zealand part of our wedding experience”.

Proposal story: “This past August, Carlos and I were spending the weekend at my family's summer house by the ocean. Carlos suggested we go for a little walk on the beach and completely surprised me by suddenly kneeling in front of me in the sand. I hadn't thought he was going to ask me for another year or so based on conversations that we had had. Turns out, he had been elaborately planning the proposal for months coordinating everything. After I said yes we started to walk back up the beach and suddenly my family came running down from the dunes where they had been hiding with a bottle of champagne and glasses for all of us. It was perfect” SO romantic story!

Enjoy highlights of photo gallery with these beautiful souls. Our session been full of Love, Light and Laughter!

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Emily & Peter engagement shoot in Auckland

Im happy to share with you beautiful moments with Emily & Peter at their engagement shoot in Auckland, New Zealand.

We met with couple on Muriwai Beach one of the afternoons before the Christmas and had some chat about their upcoming wedding and plans for a special day, their story and relationship, what they most excited about upcoming celebration with their friends and family.

Enjoy highlights of our session in one of the most stunning Auckland location, such a perfect setting for their love and emotional connection. Such a pleasure to document all these special for a couple moments!

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Pre-wedding Engagement session on Auckland beach {New Zealand wedding photographer}

Im so excited to share with you a pre-wedding engagement photo session on Auckland beach with Lisa & Chris. One of the most beautiful place in New Zealand with stunning landscapes and amazing atmosphere.

It was a honour for me to meet the couple before their wedding, Im so excited to be their wedding photographer and document all the romantic, emotional and real moments with their friends and family.

It was a gorgeous afternoon and we been lucky enough to get a sunset soft light, so perfect for a session.

Enjoy highlights this pre-wedding | engagement gallery!

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Top Nine - Best of 2019 {Auckland wedding - engagement - maternity - newborn-family photography}

This year was just amazing and Im so excited to share with you Best of 2019 - beautiful, emotional and real moments from wedding - engagement - maternity - newborn and family photography.

It was amazing and crazy busy year: with shooting 24 weddings and 17 photo shoots, including one styled shoot, traveling to Bali, Germany, Austria {Europe}, Melbourne, Australia and South Island of New Zealand {Christchurch, Auckland, Gore}; running 3 live photography workshops {two in Auckland and one in Melbourne}, and 4-weeks online workshop Love, Light & Laughter at Click Photo School. Such a beautiful time! I just loved to share my knowledge, my love and my soul!

I progressed in my ice skating, participating in Adult World Championship in Oberstdorf, and won some gold and silver medals on New Zealand Nationals, as well as participated with my synchro team in Australian Nationals, where we got very close to 3rd place with just 0.1 points of difference in scores!

Lot of hard work for the next year and exciting plans ahead! Practice and progress in everything I do!

I can not wait to see what next year brings!

My focus for the next year is harmony, balance, capture only limited number of weddings and sessions, concentrating on personal and educational projects/photography workshops, family and myself, keep doing ice skating and participating in international competitions. I hope to improve my level in everything I do. Having a good sport hobby allowing not only keep healthy body and mind, but also come back refresh to my photography and business. So important to find time for yourself!

Enjoy this look back in some favourites from the last season - best of 2019, including my Top 9 on instagram - on my Personal and Business accounts!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

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Karekare - Piha - Muriwai beach - West Auckland pre-wedding photography

I would love to share with you amazing session with Doris & jacob at Karekare - Piha - Muriwai Beach and Riverhead Forest - stunning West Auckland locations, just perfect for pre-wedding photography. Couple made their way from Hong Kong to this beautiful destination. It was a honour for me, New Zealand wedding and engagement photographer to capture so special for this couple moments.

The highlight of the session was not only beautiful and emotional, natural and romantic moments in their relationship, but also 4 different outfits! So amazing and just perfect!

Enjoy highlights of this photo gallery:

One session - Four Dresses {Pre-Wedding New Zealand - Auckland engagement photographer}

I’m so excited to share with you a sneak peek from one session with four dresses!!! Doris & Jacob come to pre-wedding session in New Zealand from Hong Kong, couple contacted me as an Auckland engagement photographer to take some beautiful and emotional natural photos at the beach.

We could not limit the session just to one beach so decided to travel around stunning New Zealand West Coast - begin from Riverhead forest, then Muriwai Beach and travel to Karekare Falls and Piha Beach. All this travelling totally worth it!

Such a breathtaking environment!

Enjoy this quick sneak peek with Doris & Jacob in Auckland, New Zealand.

Muriwai Beach Pre-Wedding photo shoot {Auckland engagement-maternity photographer}

Beautiful moments at Georgiana & Codie Muriwai Beach Pre-wedding photo shoot in Auckland. Its such a pleasure for me engagement-wedding-maternity photographer to capture so beautiful and emotional moments for this couple.

Enjoy highlights in the gallery!

Couple shared their story: “ We have been together eight years - we got together in first year at university and have been together ever since. We met at our first year hall and bonded over a mutual love of tv shows and procrastinating from study”. Proposal: “Codie was so concerned with making it a surprise and I was so suspicious (we had already bought the ring so I knew it was coming) that he surprised me at home and THEN took me out to a lovely regional park where we had bubbles and strawberries. It was lovely! He was so nervous and it was so sweet haha “ So romantic story!

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Forest Engagement Session {Auckland pre-wedding photographer}

Enjoy highlights of Riverhead Forest engagement session with Tracy & Chris, such a pleasure for me as an Auckland re-wedding photographer to capture these special for couple moments.

We meet with Tracey & Chris at the afternoon and had such amazing time, walking and talking and capturing some beautiful, emotional and real moments.

Couple shared their story: “Weve been together 7 years...following 2.5 years long distance, we moved to London together and have been home 3 years back in nz. Have ticked the boxes of our first home, two fur babies and got engaged. We love travel and adventure both in our own country and abroad!” Proposal happened: “At Waiwera, a place very special to us and where Chris felt he knew I was the one for him. We went up on our 6th anniversary and in walking on the beach, fireworks in the background again symbolising our first weekend away 6 years ago... Chris got down on one knee and proposed! Surprised me for sure!” So beautiful and romantic story!

(this photo shoot come together as a call for my photography workshop Love, Light & Lighter. I appreciate couple helped to other photographers education}

Happy future together

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Before and After | Editing Workflow and Post-processing {Auckland engagement | wedding photographer

I never shared here my Before & After, what I do in my editing workflow and post-processing. There a lot of magic and work to enhance the world around, bring some colours, pop the subject, make background looks beautiful and my couples look their best, and add some contrast, as our cameras just can’t often translate how we see the world and how we feel it! Of course it all starting on location with getting it right in the camera, creating connections, compose boldly and choosing the right angle and perspective to translate emotions. But it also a lot of time afterwards working on details and bringing your vision to reality!

As an Auckland engagement and wedding photographer I traveled all around and visited many beautiful places at photo shoots, but my heart belongs to stunning West Coast Beaches {Piha, Muriwai, Karekare, Bethells etc}.

As an Artist Im bringing my vision in the final process creating beautiful, emotional and real photographs that connects to couple love and storytelling.

Enjoy my Before & After to see what I changed in post-processing Jess & Jason pre-wedding session. Watch me shooting and editing this photo shoot in my online workshop “Love, Light & Laughter” at Click Photo School {registration open now, spaces fill out quickly, get in first}.

Before {SOOC - straight out of camera image}

AFTER - EDIT

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AFTER {EDIT}

BEFORE {SOOC}

AFTER {EDIT}

BEFORE {SOOC}

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Love - Light - Laughter - pre-wedding session in Auckland {engagement - wedding photography}

Im so excited to share with you my recent session on Muriwai Beach. Great news its been filmed for my online workshop “Love - Light - Laughter” at Click Photo School. You can see me creating connections and shooting this pre-wedding session in Auckland with Synthea & Nathan, such amazing couple, just had their engagement and preparing for upcoming wedding in may. Such an exciting time!

This beautiful photography gallery truly reflect all emotions, real moments and document feel of adventure. Couple been dancing, walking in the water. Once I even got washed out by unexpected wave {luckily camera was save}.

Enjoy highlights in photo gallery:

Love and Light - Pre-wedding session in New Zealand {Auckland engagement photographer}

Love and Light - these two words perfectly describing this gorgeous pre-wedding session New Zealand - Auckland with Hui & Elwin {couple made their way from overseas and it was a honour to be their engagement photographer and document such emotional and real moments}.

Gorgeous Hui & Elwin! When couple made all the way to New Zealand from Hong-Kong for their couple's session, it was rainy, but they decided to take a gamble and move the session to their very last evening before fly out of New Zealand. Luckily sun come out this time for a couple of minutes and we manage to capture beautiful moments and connection, just before couple head to the airport form the beach. Such a great memories! Safe travels!

Enjoy this quick sneak peek, more pictures coming soon!

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• another exciting news - new online workshop with Click Photo School coming in October. It will be all about Light, Love & Laughter, creating connection and emotive imaginery. It’s going to be amazing 4 weeks full of learning, inspiration, new friendships and personal feedback and growth. I would love to have you join!